Data Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Data Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Data Engineer salary in the City of London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 133 120
Rank change year-on-year +32 -13 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 78 97 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.33% 2.10% 2.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.43% 2.18% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 68 84 155
10th Percentile £28,250 £46,625 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £79,063 £95,313 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £106,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 3,205 4,457 6,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 96.28% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,548 3,741 5,601
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +3.57%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (69.23%) SQL
2 47 (60.26%) Python
3 40 (51.28%) ETL
4 38 (48.72%) Azure
5 31 (39.74%) Data Pipeline
6 27 (34.62%) Data Modelling
7 25 (32.05%) Data Warehouse
8 21 (26.92%) AWS
8 21 (26.92%) Data Engineering
8 21 (26.92%) PySpark
9 19 (24.36%) Data Science
10 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
10 16 (20.51%) Databricks
10 16 (20.51%) Finance
11 15 (19.23%) Agile
12 14 (17.95%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (16.67%) Snowflake
13 13 (16.67%) DevOps
14 12 (15.38%) Analytics
14 12 (15.38%) Data Integration
15 11 (14.10%) Migration
16 10 (12.82%) Telecoms
16 10 (12.82%) Data Architecture
16 10 (12.82%) Structured Cabling
16 10 (12.82%) DBS Check
16 10 (12.82%) Driving Licence
16 10 (12.82%) CI/CD
17 9 (11.54%) dbt
17 9 (11.54%) GCP
18 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.26%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.69%) Apache
2 6 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.28%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (2.56%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.72%) Azure
2 21 (26.92%) AWS
3 14 (17.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 9 (11.54%) dbt
5 9 (11.54%) GCP
6 7 (8.97%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.69%) Serverless
8 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.28%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (1.28%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.28%) IaaS
11 1 (1.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.82%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (32.05%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (10.26%) Data Lake
2 8 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.97%) Power BI
4 6 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.41%) Spark SQL
6 4 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (5.13%) Data Vault
7 3 (3.85%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.56%) Big Data
8 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.56%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.56%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.56%) Tableau
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Git
2 4 (5.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 16 (20.51%) Finance
1 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.82%) Telecoms
3 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.13%) Music Industry
5 1 (1.28%) Front Office
5 1 (1.28%) Games
5 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.92%) PySpark
2 4 (5.13%) Pandas
3 2 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (1.28%) .NET
4 1 (1.28%) Anaconda
4 1 (1.28%) Flask
4 1 (1.28%) JSON
4 1 (1.28%) Kafka
4 1 (1.28%) Plotly
4 1 (1.28%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.56%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.56%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (51.28%) ETL
2 31 (39.74%) Data Pipeline
3 27 (34.62%) Data Modelling
4 21 (26.92%) Data Engineering
5 19 (24.36%) Data Science
6 15 (19.23%) Agile
7 13 (16.67%) DevOps
8 12 (15.38%) Analytics
8 12 (15.38%) Data Integration
9 11 (14.10%) Migration
10 10 (12.82%) CI/CD
10 10 (12.82%) Data Architecture
11 8 (10.26%) Data Migration
11 8 (10.26%) Test Automation
12 7 (8.97%) Data Transformation
13 6 (7.69%) Visualisation
14 5 (6.41%) Decision-Making
15 4 (5.13%) Data Strategy
15 4 (5.13%) Machine Learning
15 4 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 54 (69.23%) SQL
2 47 (60.26%) Python
3 3 (3.85%) C#
4 2 (2.56%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.28%) C++
5 1 (1.28%) Java
5 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.28%) R
5 1 (1.28%) Scala
5 1 (1.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) DBS Check
2 3 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Terraform
2 1 (1.28%) Ansible
2 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (20.51%) Databricks
2 4 (5.13%) Alteryx
3 2 (2.56%) Informatica
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.56%) NEC
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle
3 2 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.28%) Brio
4 1 (1.28%) Google